Re: Ownership of external usb hard drive
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 11:03:29AM GMT, Ashton Fagg wrote:
> On 22/12/11 20:55, Raf Czlonka wrote:
> >On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 01:50:57AM GMT, Ashton Fagg wrote:
> >>On 22/12/11 11:39, Sharon Kimble wrote:
> >>>As the drive is owned by root should it be run as sudo?
> >>
> >>Yes, or as root (su -c 'chown blah blah').
> >
> >What's the point of running "su" as root?
>
> My wording wasn't clear, apparently. I didn't mean run "su" whilst
> as root, I meant use "su" to run it as root as an alternative to
> sudo. Does that make more sense? :)
It makes more sense now, indeed :^)
> >Your example will only change user "blah" permissions for "blah"
> >file/directory. Example above is better as it changes the permissions
> >recursively and group ones as well.
>
> By "chown blah blah" I actually meant "insert the command from the
> previous reply". I thought that would be obvious...
>
> Apparently my internet communication skills are way off today, apologies.
No worries. One of those days, eh? ;^)
Regards,
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Raf
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